The new CEFTA is also aimed at increasing foreign trade, removing obstacles in trade, improving conditions to stimulate investment, gradually opening the public procurement market and market competition terms, and protecting intellectual property rights.
The Sabor adopted the Volunteering Act which regulates the position of all legal and physical persons engaged in organised volunteering. One hundred thousand kuna will be set aside in the national budget every year for the development of volunteering.
Parliament adopted a decision on the participation of Croatian troops in UN peace missions with 106 votes, more than the two-thirds majority. By the end of 2008, up to five soldiers are expected to be sent to Nepal, up to six to Lebanon, and two each to Sierra Leone, Burundi, and Afghanistan.
The Sabor also adopted the human rights ombudsman's report for 2006 and a conclusion by the Committee on Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities under which suggestions from the debate and the report should be submitted to the government so that it could take measures for a more effective performance of state bodies and bodies with public authority.
Speaker Vladimir Seks said that due to the need of further agreement, voting on amendments to laws on locations of courts was postponed.
The Sabor will resume its 25th session next week.
Seks announced that the parliament was expected to wrap up the current sitting on June 1 and call the 26th session for June 13. It is expected to last until mid-July.